Tombstone Inscriptions....

 

"I enjoyed reading these inscriptions found on old tombstones so thought I would share them with you..." (Peggy) 

 

Peggy sometimes would use fill in articles of interest for her newsletter, "Seeking 'n Searching Ancestors", or to add a filler to her newspaper column, "Window to the Past", and among such publishings sometimes were 'tombstones inscriptions'... here are a few she used as 'fillers' for her historical articles... (Kelly Warman-Stallings)

 

Old Cemeteries...........................…

 

• ​​A truly Happy Person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour. And, one who can enjoy browsing old cemeteries... Some fascinating things on old tombstones! 

• Harry Edsel Smith of Albany, New York : Born 1903--Died 1942....... "Looked up the elevator shaft to see if the car was on the way down. It was." 

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• ​​ In a Thurmont, Maryland cemetery:  "Here lies an Atheist, all dressed up and no place to go."

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• ​​On the grave of Ezekial Aikle in East Dalhousie Cemetery, Nova Scotia:    ​"​Here lies Ezekial Aikle, Age 102.. Only The Good Die Young"

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• ​In a London, England cemetery: "​​Here lies Ann Mann, Who lived an old maid but died an old Mann. Dec. 8, 1767 

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• ​​In a Ribbesford, England cemetery: Anna Wallace ...... "The children of Israel wanted bread, And the Lord sent them manna. Clark Wallace wanted a wife, And the Devil sent him Anna."

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• ​​In a Ruidoso, New Mexico cemetery:  "​​Here lies Johnny Yeast.... Pardon him for not rising"

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• ​​​In a Uniontown, Pennsylvania cemetery: ​​Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake. Stepped on the gas instead of the brake."

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• ​​​In a Silver City, Nevada cemetery: ​​"Here lays The Kid. We planted him raw. He was quick on the trigger. But slow on the draw."

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• ​​​​​​A lawyer's epitaph in England : > Sir John Strange...... "Here lies an honest lawyer, and that is Strange."

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• ​John Penny's epitaph in the Wimborne, England cemetery: "​​Reader, if cash thou art in want of any, Dig 6 feet deep and thou wilt find a Penny"

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• ​​In a cemetery in Hartscombe, England: "​​On the 22nd of June, Jonathan Fiddle went out of tune"

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• ​​​Anna Hopewell's grave in Enosburg Falls, Vermont:  ​"Here lies the body of our Anna,  Done to death by a banana.  It wasn't the fruit that laid her low, But the skin of the thing that made her go"

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• ​​​On a grave from the 1880s in Nantucket, Massachusetts: ​"Under the sod and under the trees, Lies the body of Jonathan Pease.  He is not here, there's only the pod.  Pease shelled out and went to God."

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• ​​​In a cemetery in England: ​​"Remember man, as you walk by, As you are now, so once was I. As I am now, so shall you be. Remember this and follow me." (To which someone replied by writing on the tombstone: "To follow you I'll not consent. Until I know which way you went.")

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• Several Gravestones Readings:

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